HoosierAloha

How about tweaking the new selling point to Mrs. Bryant...?   Your son can come in and lead this team on and off the court.  We have some damn fine kids here who are working hard at getting better on the court and improving themselves.  You can come in and improve your game, work towards a top notch degree, and lead your teammates to better themselves.  That type of leadership is invaluable to more than just a career in basketball.

  Agreed, I'm in a much much different field of work.  Most people who begin working for me don't like me the "boss."  It's the people who years down the road who have contacted me and thanked me for how I brought them up.  Now, the difference I believe is I had to change my leadership mentality with different troops and sometimes with the same troop.  A huge quality I would like to see in a coach at IU is the ability to adapt and overcome.

Pap, I have been thinking on this the last several weeks since things settled down "a bit" from the incident on Halloween.  I think you summed up how I feel about the current regime at IU.  Of course, everyone wants to win, everyone wants to see a product on the court that competes and wins at a high level.   I feel what has turned me off is these kids just don't seem to get it.  When the person in charge isn't getting his message across something has to change.  I was that young Hoosier growing up idolizing Cheaney, Bailey, Henderson, etc. I felt Hulls, Zeller, Oladipo, Watford, had brought that culture back to IU.   With "the movement" seems to have come a sense of entitlement.  Coach had harped for so long that the kids came in hungry without a sense of entitlement.  That has been reversed with the last couple of recruiting classes.  I believe Yogi let it out that he was guaranteed a starting spot if he were to come to IU.  What happened to earning everything you achieved?  I feel like coach is fighting so much more stuff behind the scenes and some of that is internal.  I believe he trusts his players and his system to a fault.   What changes to see better results?  Are we at the point that he needs to go for us to progress from a "rebuild" to a contender?  Is he capable of rebounding and being the man that takes the program to the next level?   A few sweet sixteens, a B1G title, perfect APR, and lottery picks are great for the rebuild.  He needs to cleanup the act and take care of business, this is Indiana.

  I like how you clarified in the first, with Wisky you never know.

Just ignore that little push in the back.

Just tuned in.  Did the team not make the trip from Btown?  What did they do with the Hoosiers?

Ex'cuse getting run

  College bball is very corrupt, even the "clean" programs are not clean.  All great empires have crumbled when they expanded beyond their power.  The same will happen to certain programs sooner rather than later. 

Can we change the title to "ATH Titus Booker off the board", hate seeing that university on this site.

Wouldn't mind bringing Tony Dungy back to Indiana.

I LOVE college basketball season AND it's only going to get better!!

IU -10 Other - 63

LOL

So is there a second half prediction anywhere?  I nailed the first half!

IU - 13 Them - 10

I'm only a few hundred yards from the hanger where these games will be played... STOKED!

That's Indiana football.

MURPHY!!!!

Everyone says our defensive backs are horrible at tackling but.. they are outstanding tacklers with the ball in the air!

IU - 23 PSU - 20

This is hilarious!   https://vine.co/v/OODmzVljvwt

IU - 38 Other - 17   Hoke misses the bus out of Btown.

Welcome to the family OG.  You'll find that Hoosier Nation is made up of all kinds...

No denying his talent, if he gets his mind right and the work ethic is there he can become a special player.  I hope he is doing what is best for him and the staff is doing what is best for the program.  If coach thinks he can turn the kids life around I'm all for it.

I'm forever grateful not everyone gave up on me when I was a misguided young adult...